March 2012
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أنا طائر غريب، لكنني لست حتى الطيور، وهذا أغرب...
“I’m a strange bird, but I’m not even a bird, and that’s the strangest part.”
February 2012
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For anyone else thrown off by this new "airport"... →
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Quote/unquote
whoismrbishop:
I miss Christopher Hitchens very much. I loved his writing and his spirit and I wish I’d met him. Before he died I even thought about flying to see him and knocking on his door. I wish I had.
— Liam Neeson
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On Ayn Rand →
zeitvox:
letterstomycountry:
As I spotted JoeMcCarthyBlues discussing Ayn Rand with spry interlocutors, I was reminded of an article that Whittaker Chambers wrote for National Review in 1957, in which he essentially decimated Ayn Rand’s philosophy and literary bona fides. It is worth quoting Chambers at length. Here, he analyzes Rand’s use of the dollar sign as a symbol of her liberation ...
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The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it’s just the best...
– Carl Sagan (via the-star-stuff
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Curiosity’s a gateway drug. The hard substance is obsession.
– Noelle Rathbun @ Postcards From The Void (via criminalwisdom
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